Telecom service provider SK Telecom has developed LTE-Advanced 3 Band Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology that can offer 300Mbps speed.
This is for the first time in the world, SK Telecom said on Monday.
The technology aggregates 3 bands – 20MHz+10MHz +10MHz – to support speeds of up to 300Mbps.
Customers will benefit from the fastest LTE-Advanced speeds once the related chipset and devices are developed. Industry experts forecast LTE-Advanced 3 band CA to become commercialized in the end of 2014.
Global standardization process for LTE-Advanced 3 band CA is currently.
Park Jin-hyo, senior vice president and head of Network Technology R&D Center at SK Telecom, said: “SK Telecom will continue to make strenuous efforts to provide unmatched service quality and speeds, which will lead to the overall advancement of the global telecommunications industry.
SK Telecom plans to showcase its LTE-Advanced 3 band CA at MWC 2014, to be held in Barcelona next month. The Korean service provider will demonstrate 450Mbps LTE-Advanced by aggregating three component carriers (20MHz+ 20MHz+20MHz).
Earlier, SK Telecom became the world’s first mobile carrier to launch LTE-Advanced on June 26, 2013 by applying core LTE-Advanced technologies including Carrier Aggregation.
The company secured over 13.5 million LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers as of June 2013.
